[ivtv-users] cx18: hauppaugehvr1600: usage question & conflict w/ nvidia 8800 gt

[Christian Rapp]

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Hi,

first of all, you can't use xawtv to watch tv, because it doesn't
support mpeg streams. The new xawtv4 was supposed to do so but
development has stopped a while ago.

Try to do the following:

Tune a station with ivtv-tune. E.g.
[ivtv-tune --device=/dev/video0 --channel=25]
Contact your cable provider, to get a list on which channel is a station.

Then we do
[cat /dev/video0 > test.mpeg]
This will save the video stream in the file test.mpeg in your users home
directory.
Wait some seconds and than open the file with a video-player.

You could give TV-Viewer a try. It's a small gui for ivtv and pvrusb2
cards but could also work with a cx18 based adapter.

http://home.arcor.de/saedelaere/index_eng.html

Good luck




Julian TC Bui schrieb:
> UPDATE:
> 
> I got it working so that I can now scan for channels.  Xawtv properly 
> recognizes the scantv output.
> 
> However, I still can't get video. When I choose a channel I get the 
> following error message:
> 
> <msg>
> This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.27-7-generic)
> xinerama 0: 1680x1050+0+0
> WARNING: No DGA direct video mode for this display.
> /dev/video0 [v4l2]: no overlay support
> v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
> Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" to 
> type FontStruct
> </msg>
> 
> So I googled for DGA, and suspected I may not have privileges to use DGA, so 
> I tried running as root but that didn't work either.
> 
> When I change the channel I get the following error message:
> 
> <msg>
> no way to get: 384x288 32 bit TrueColor (LE: bgr-)
> no way to get: 128x96 32 bit TrueColor (LE: bgr-)
> </msg>
> 
> I suspect that this error may relate to my 8800 GT graphics card.
> 
> Some additional info:
> 
> Doing a hardware scan:
> 
> $ xawtv -hwscan
> This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.27-7-generic)
> looking for available devices
> port 280-311
>      type : Xvideo, image scaler
>      name : NV17 Video Texture
> 
> /dev/video0: OK                         [ -device /dev/video0 ]
>      type : v4l2
>      name : Hauppauge HVR-1600
>      flags:  capture tuner
> 
> 
> 
> Please help.
> 
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